158! Well then I concede. In all seriousness, that take was polemic and arguably bad-faith when it was published; and it is much more egregiously so now. The

158! Well then I concede. In all seriousness, that take was polemic and arguably bad-faith when it was published; and it is much more egregiously so now. The good news is we're going to hear much, much less about "stochastic parrots" when multi-modal models come into their own. The "faked" Gemini video may have been faked but it won't be fake for particularly long, that should be obvious to anyone in or closely following the field. The premise that human beings do something substantially different from correlate multilevel abstractions is looking pretty weak. If one prefers to take the other side as primary and start arguing that what they mean by parrots applies about as much to humans, well, then we can start using that language. Otherwise it's poppycock.